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{{quote|''"We don't die... we ''multiply.''"''
|'''Robin Harris'''}}
A common type of enemy, an Asteroids Monster is a creature of significant size that, when killed, splits into several miniature versions of itself. Sometimes, killing these may result in further miniature versions, which may in turn split into even smaller versions. There can be any number of stages, although [[Rule of Three|three]] seems to be the most common number. The Asteroids Monster is often also a [[Blob Monster]].
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== Advertising ==
* In [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnfaqdiwMso this commercial], a waffle iron turns a curious, walking Eggo waffle into four smaller walking Eggo Minis.
== Anime and Manga ==
* The angel Israfel from ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' splits in two when it's first attacked. Its only weakness is a <s> [[Training Montage]]</s> ''[[Crowning Moment of Funny|synchronised]]'' ''[[Dance Battler|dance battle.]]''
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* In ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] [[The Movie]] 1st'', the [[Monster of the Week|Jewel Seed monsters]] were reimagined to be this. One splits into three and attempts to run away after it was blasted, and another had a severed body part turn into smaller monsters that attacked its assailant.
* [[Eldritch Abomination|Witches]] in [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]] can be this. Originally, there's one "parent" witch with a Grief Seed, and it generates familiars that serve and protect it. The familiars (which don't have Grief Seeds) can split off, form their own [[Pocket Dimension|barrier]], and begin tormenting humans. Once they cause enough destruction (heavily implied to culminate with killing someone), they turn into a copy of their parent with another Grief Seed.
* One manga "ZOUSHOKU SHOUJO PLANA-CHAN!", had the heroine Rinne Ikaruga forced take care of her [[Mad Scientist]] sister's genetically engineered mutant half planarian (a non-parasitic flatworm) 4-year old named Plana. Due to the regenerative abilities coming from her planarian half, Plana is able to instantly split into more of herself much to Rinne chagrin, as simply tripping causes Plana to instantly multiply into more Planas (including smaller ones) https://web.archive.org/web/20100825132330/http://www.tenmanga.com/chapter/ZoushokuShoujoPlanachanCh001/202501-14.html. Fortunately for her (and the entire town should it get overcrowded with numerous little mutant girls), limitations to Plana's splitting ability make it so that separating into 30 parts causing all Planas except the original to instantly disappear.
== Comic Books ==
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== Literature ==
* According to one Jewish interpretation of [[The Bible]], the plague of frogs started with just a single frog, which split into two every time it was hit. The Egyptians nevertheless were so annoyed they couldn't stop hitting it, ending with the whole Egypt being inundated.
* In ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20110907030958/http://www.webscription.net/10.1125/Baen/0743436008/0743436008.htm Star Tiger]'' by Christopher Anvil, the only creatures on a planet appear to be placid herbivores. But if you kill one and don't destroy the body completely, what's left regenerates into one or more smaller, vicious carnivores, ranging in size from a tiger down to a shrew.
* [[The Dresden Files]] has the 'Mantis Girl' Denarian, who turns into a bunch of little mantises when blown to bits. They all come back together to re-form the larger self. It also has Lea's guardian worm, which turns into two guardian worms when blasted.
** Trolls bleed miniature versions of themselves and can eventually reform from the smaller parts.
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== Newspaper Comics ==
* ''[[Lio]]'' discovered that this is what happens if you attempt to eliminate a [[Bedsheet Ghost]] with scissors.
* Many simple-bodied organisms can reproduce asexually by splitting into smaller fragments. The planaria in particular is renowned for its regenerative capabilities: an individual can be cut into as many as eight equal pieces, each of which can survive and develop into a separate planaria.▼
* Cut an arm off a starfish, it grows another starfish. [[Fridge Logic|Cut off your own arm...?]]▼
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** The 3.5-edition ''Monster Manual 3'' has a variation with the omnimental, an [[Elemental Embodiment|elemental]] composed of all four classical elements which, when killed, splits into one creature for each element.
* Once upon a time, [[Eldritch Abomination|Horrors]] of [[Chessmaster|Tzeentch]] in ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' did this - "Pink Horrors" split into weaker "Blue Horrors" when wounded. The rules no longer reflect this aspect of the fluff, "for the sanity of the players."
* ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' gives us the [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=205032 Mitotic Slime].
** There's also the much, much older [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=201124 Spiny Starfish].
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== Video Games ==
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== Western Animation ==
* In an episode of ''[[
* In the "Sorcerer's Apprentice" sequence in ''[[Fantasia]]'', Mickey Mouse enchants a broom to fetch water in his place. When he realizes that [[Literal Genie|it won't stop]] and [[Power Incontinence|he doesn't know how to enchant it to stop]], he chops it up. A minute later, the splinters turn into [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|hundreds of brooms that won't stop]].
** This is direct from Goethe's poem ''Die Zauberlehrling'', although that particular apprentice only cuts the broom in half and only has to deal with two.
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* A quasi-enemy version occurs in ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "Fry and the Slurm Factory", when Leela kicks Glurmo (the slug-like Wormulonian Slurm Factory guide), splitting him in half. Each half reforms into a half-sized version of Glurmo ([[Fridge Logic|complete with smaller-sized clothing, for some reason]]), with a strangely distorted voice. They show up again later in the series, [[Continuity Nod|still half-sized and odd-voiced]].
* A series of shorts on [[Nickelodeon]] had a pair of [[Ineffectual Villain]] alien invaders who landed on a planet inhabited by a little alien that split into two more when they first tried to zap it with their laser guns. They took advantage of the alien's ability by zapping it numerous times, making more little aliens happily willing to serve their every need. Things go out of hand (as they always do for them) when too many zaps causes too many little aliens running around, which makes the pair zap them even more, which of course makes even more of them. Eventually they're forced to leave the planet as it overflows with little aliens.
* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'': Patrick Star, being a fat pink starfish, demonstrated this in at least one episode.
* Wooldoor Sockbat did this in one episode of ''[[Drawn Together]]''.
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▲* Many simple-bodied organisms can reproduce asexually by splitting into smaller fragments. The planaria in particular is renowned for its regenerative capabilities: an individual can be cut into as many as eight equal pieces, each of which can survive and develop into a separate planaria.
▲* Board game: [http://www.sjgames.com/awfulgreen/ The Awful Green Things From Outer Space]
▲* Cut an arm off a starfish, it grows another starfish. [[Fridge Logic|Cut off your own arm...?]]
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